Great Eastern Technology

Moved to Tuesday January 28th, 2014 because of weather!!

Eat-n-Greet 7pm & Event Start7:30pm.

Our first event of 2014 will be held at the Manhattan Autodesk office space located at 38 West 21st Street on the 9th Floor, New York NY 10011.

 

You must RSVP to attend and if you have not attended one of our prior events, you must also fill out our registration survey online prior to arriving.

 

Main Presentation:

Manageable Solutions for Dynamic Foliage and Tight Deadlines

 

Kim Lee will be presenting some techniques recently applied for shots in an upcoming National Geographic series.  He will examine workflows used for populating and animating foliage blowing in the wind for moderate scale environments without resorting to software packages like Vue.  Topics covered will include creating grass in Maya and bringing it into 3ds Max, cheating dynamics on geometry and bitmap foliage,  harnessing Point cache, Vray Proxies/MR Proxies,  using Object Paint to place foliage,  and various tips to consider when optimizing render times of foliage.

 

Refreshments will be provided.

A special thank you to our sponsors:

Autodesk for providing space for us to play.

Great Eastern Tech for keeping us fed and hydrated.

PNY for providing the graphics cards

Rain Computers for providing the horsepower for all our demos and presentations.